title: Nucleation in protein folding--confusion of structure and process.
abstract: The term 'nucleation' is currently used to denote two distinctly different aspects of folding: the kinetic and the structural. This gives rise to ambiguity in the use of the word 'nucleation', which is compounded by the fact that the word 'nuclei', as used in the structural sense, has more aliases than cats have lives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark 19716.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Wetlaufer
mesh_terms: D007700:Kinetics; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins